Who said anything about dropping support for basic use? I would be surprised if you could tell much difference on Mac IE between Wikipedia with the custom stylesheet and without. But perhaps you could give it a try and report back to us, rather than relying on my wild speculations :)
Ryan Kaldari
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 6:34 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
Even then, there is http://www.askvg.com/download-mozilla-firefox-30-portable-edition-no-installation-needed/
Excuse me? please read the earlier posts in this thread.
I am talking about IE for Mac Classic.
iCab support? Is Classilla a sensible replacement for people still using IE for Mac? etc.
I couldn't get classzilla running on a blue and white G3 running 9.0.2 when I tried it a couple months ago.
I have a couple of these systems for driving some embedded hardware that never got moved to anything more modern, they'd be perfectly adequate systems for webbrowsing if you could get a workably up to date webbrowser on them: The IE the OS ships with hard locks the machine on apple.com of all places! I was only bothering to attempt this because I wanted to get a screenshot of cortado playing videos on something very old, and I only spent an hour or so on it. (Wikipedia, OTOH, worked fine with the IE that comes with the OS on those systems)
But seriously. Outright *excluding* these old things shouldn't even be a consideration. Even a very small audience (like 0.02%) is tens of thousands of readers. Mediawiki (and the WMF deployment) already has many features which don't work / don't work well on fairly old systems, so that bridge has already been crossed, but outright dropping support for basic use?
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